The Art of Election Cheating
Cheat – the act of deceiving or swindling; to deal with dishonesty for one’s own gain; to deceive by trickery. Cheat is a general term which implies dishonesty or deception in dealing with a person to obtain some advantage.
Another term for it is defraud, a legal term that stresses a deliberate deception in criminality that deprives a person of his rights.
Swindle stresses the winning of a person’s confidence in order to cheat or defraud a person of money, possession and others. Dupe stresses credulity in a person who is tricked or fooled. Trick implies a deluding by means of a ruse stratagem. Hoax implies a trick skillfully carried off to demonstrate the gullibility of a victim.
In this election on May 14, pessimists predict there will be cheaters, some will be duped, candidates maybe swindled of his/her votes. There will also be hoax. Will you be one of these specifically during this May 14 election? Please exclude yourself.
If the former Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) officials are correct, the May 14 election will be rigged. These former AFP officers called themselves Poll Watchdog Coalition or "Bantay Boto".
According to them, there is a fresh plot to cheat in the May 14 election, aimed to ensure victory for the administration’s senatorial candidates.
Bantay Boto revealed it received reports on the existing "Oplan Mercury Rising" designed to bag the top three slots for team unity (TU) in the Visayas, Mindanao and 12 other provinces in the country. The three are Michael Defensor, Jose Miguel Zubiri and Prospero Pichay.
Retired Commodore Ismael Aparri of Bantay Boto issued warnings to concerned officers that Bantay Boto "will watch their every move until the final count is in". "Cheating will take place and we will try to limit it," assured Aparri.
Huge cash incentives for local government and Comelec officials will be offered for the delivery of 12–0 win for TU, revealed Aparri. Bonus is added if Alan Peter Cayetano got zero vote.
Aparri alleged, general Hermogenes Esperon, AFP chief of staff issued instructions to military commanders to ensure 12-0 for TU win. During the absentee voting of military personnel between May 4-6, army personnel were advised to vote straight TU, alleged Aparri.
However, Lt. Col. Bartolome Bacarro denied the allegation saying: "Let’s not drag the AFP into something it is not doing."
ADD & SUBTRACT
After the voting has ended, adding and subtracting of votes will start. Votes will be added to candidates who paid while votes will be subtracted from the candidates who did not pay. Those candidates with money and are willing to spend it for vote adding or shaving will win the election.
This will happen as it happened in the past elections. The operators usually do votes adding and shaving in the town and provincial levels.
The town level involves P100,000 or below per candidate and P200,000 to P1 million in the provincial level depending upon the size of the province or city concerned in term of voters population, said an unnamed source who used to be part of the past operations.
The money is prepared and then look for a guide who may identify the right election officer to bribe for they are the custodian of the certificate of canvass (COCs).
But why cheat? Swindle? Defraud? Why do candidates dupe or hoax their rivals? Are they really honorable persons?
The cheaters are most fitted for the dustbin. They are not the best person to lead us, the people. Okay, they are proclaimed senator, congressman, governor, vice governor, SP or SB member, Mayor and Vice Mayor because they cheated, then they are fake officials. They defrauded the real and actual winners. They are dishonorables. They are power hungry.
In Akeanon terms, they are "sueok, hakog, maakop, akab, hangoe!" /MP
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